Category: Religion

Wed 22 January 2020: Saudi Arabia has introduced new charges on Hajj visa’s which will come into effect this year. Pilgrims from across the Muslim world will be required to pay $80 in addition to the skyrocketing fees charged by travel agencies to perform what is considered a religious obligation for those that can afford […]

Members of the National Council of Muslims Mustafa Farooq, centre, and Bochra Manai, left, alongside supporters leave the Quebec Court of Appeal in Montreal, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, where they are challenging Quebec’s Bill 21. Sun 19 January 2019: he National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) filed on Friday a challenge to Quebec’s controversial religious […]

Wed 15 January 2020: As the year is still new, the new government program in Austria is drawing fire for its anti-Muslim, xenophobic slant. The program announced on Jan. 1 by the coalition of the center-right Austrian People’s Party (OVP) and the Green Party shows no change from the one applied by the previous government, […]

Mon 13 January 2020: A woman of Indian descent has become the U.S. Air Force’s first female Muslim chaplain candidate, breaking taboos and shattering glass ceilings. Second Lt. Saleha Jabeen on Dec. 18, 2019 was appointed at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago by Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Steven Schaick, the Air […]

Mon 13 January 2020: The Muslim population of England has passed the three million mark for the first time, according to estimates prepared by Whitehall. They said that Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group in the country – while allegiance to Christianity continues to decline. The figures were produced by the Office for National Statistics […]

Fri 10 January 2019: Permanent delegates of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation held a meeting Wednesday at OIC’s headquarters in Jeddah to inform member states about the strategic plan to develop the vital sectors in Jerusalem, and mechanisms proposed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to implement it. The plan comes within the framework of following up […]

Fri 10 January 2020: (AFP) Brazil’s highest court on Thursday rejected a lower court’s decision to remove from Netflix a comedy depicting Jesus Christ in a gay relationship. The head of the Supreme Federal Court, Judge Antonio Dias Toffoli, sided with the streaming platform’s appeal against a temporary injunction banning the movie. It denied the […]

Thu 09 January 2019: Impossible Foods, a leading “alternative meat producer”, unvieled on Monday the world’s first meat-free pork substitute at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. The firm behind the Impossible Burger offered samples of the pork product at the trade event. Made from soy protein, and enriched with sunflower and coconut oil, […]

Mon 06 January 2020: The Arabic term “Inshallah,” meaning “If God wills it,” generally used by Muslims across the world has entered the German dictionary. It was published on the website of Duden, a dictionary of the German language si hince 1880, as “God willingly; an expression related to a future event in the Muslim […]